A Russian astrophysicist has theorised that the solar system is entering an area of space with a much higher energetic level and this will cause the sun to start producing huge sun-spots (promenences) which might cause our technology problems; maybe even rip away our planet’s radiation protection. This is the sort of predictable and repeatable disaster that could cause a regular planetary disruption, as predicted in the Long Count calendar. No sun spots so far though, in fact a dearth of them, surprisingly.

Do you think any of that will be sufficient to finally finish off X-factor, Strictly or Big Brother–or even television or the mass media in general..?
We can only live in hope I suppose.

Personally, I can’t wait, it’ll save buying presents and I hate December.
Sadly I suspect we’ll all be here in January.

Oh, and you can’t melt things down into gold–they were gold things already. The Dons just made the gold into bars, you can pack it into ship much more easily that way.

So, are we saying they should have had a lower sentence or the worse scumbags should have got more? Or should the judge have been sent down?

No, I’d put the lot of them up against a wall…

Certainly not offended at all, just amazed that you ascribe those adjectives to the great and good. People described thus cannot be great or good, in my book.

Irony, sarcasm.
Call it what you will.

The great and good are those who do act selflessly for the good of others.

I’ve yet to meet any of those.
You must move in different social circles to me.

And I do not share your choice of adjectives to describe the majority of us.
In any case how should we act to prevent what you have described?

Revolution..??
I’m sorry Charlie if you’re offended by my choice of words but I’ll stick with my life experiences.
I wrote this after hearing (yesterday) about a particularly small and shabby maneuver in a workplace, where someone did another down–total gain from shafting another human being–£20.00 a week.
Our masters must be wetting themselves with glee at the ease of it all.

Andy – I am never really sure what that cliche means – getting the leaders we deserve.

I suppose over the decades, as in most democracies, we get a mix of the great and good together with the incompetent and dreadful. That’s inevitable.

Well what it means to me in this country at least is roughly this.

Due to apathy, ignorance, greed and manipulation on the part of the majority (us–largely), the so called great and the good get away with murder and much else besides.
If more of us took an interest and acted accordingly, these people would need to be better, more honest, less indolent etc.

Of course, they feed us ****e, passed across as materialism, the media and a few promotions in the workplace. They realised long ago that they don’t need to hand out much to divide and rule–our simple greed will do the rest.

I think it was Roman who coined the phrase ‘Bread and Circuses’.

Andy

Well Charlie.
Like politicians, we get the judiciary we deserve.
Ultimately they only survive because we (the great unwashed) tolerate them.

We are awash with apathy–bread and circuses etc

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Yes Kev, I largely agree.
While I like art, and I tend to think the sentences handed down in this case are too light, I also tend towards thinking that the sentence handed down in the case you mention is way, way too light.
Absurdly so.

In this country now, you can get away with 16 months for putting some poor b*st*rd in wheelchair (and doing a bunk from the scene) who was on his way home from work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237033/Drivers-70mph-road-duel-paralysed-motorcyclist-crash-sped-suburban-street.html

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